From a randomly-selected song, we take a word from the artist or title, and find another song where that word is matched in the title or artist.

Examples:"Nowhere Man by The Beatles" to "Bigger than the Beatles By Joe Diffie""Nowhere Man by The Beatles" to "Piano Man By Billy Joel"

That's the basics, but there are some rules to it:

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To participate this competition, you must give this list a . This is to keep the geeklist on the front page of the "Hot Geeklists" longer and give more people a chance to play.

Consecutive Entries

You may post entries 2 times consecutively.

Valid Entry Formatting

Items must be SONGS in the form Song Name by Artist. Also, put the link word in bold, italics, caps, or something so we know which word you used when you linked it (Especially important if 2 or more links could have been used.)

Entry Addition

You must add your entry to the Wiki. The Wiki keeps the list of songs manageable and searchable so we know what songs have and have not already been used in a given game.

Valid Entries

Entries must be songs. They may not be album names. Songs must be published works to be eligible for the list. They must appear on this geeklist as they appear in the artist's official discography, website, or album. Classical music must cite the name of the piece and the composer.

Item Repetition

You may not use any one song/artist combination more than once. (Covers/remixes/live versions can be used of songs already listed, But not linked directly from the original.)

Artist Repetition

You may NOT link a song from an artist to another song by the same artist using the artist as the link. If the song has a word in common with the artist, it may be used. Example:

"2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden" to "Run For The Hills by Iron Maiden" is not legal."2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden" to "Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden" is. (Yes, Iron Maiden did a song called Iron Maiden.)

Cover (Remake) Linking

you may NOT link a song to a cover of the same song by a different band. (Songs that are not covers of one another, but happen to share the same title, are permissible.)

Example: Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles to Eleanor Rigby by Godhead is illegal, as Godhead's song is a remake of the Beatles song. However, Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash to Orange Blossom Special by Charlie Daniels Band IS legal, because even though they have the same name, One song is not a remake of the other.

Parodies as links, however, are valid.

Different Versions of Same Song

You may NOT link a song to the remix/live/edited version of itself. The remix/live/edited version can, however, be used later in the list as a seperate song entry (It doesn't count for item repetition.)

Flip-Flop Artist/Song Combo (Please Read This One!)

You may not "Flip Flop", that is, Go from artist to a song title, then back to that same artist. For instance:

"Nowhere Man by The Beatles" to "Bigger Than the Beatles by Joe Diffie" to "Taxman by The Beatles" is illegal.

Link Word Repetition

The link word can be used no more than 3 times in a row. Example:

"Nowhere Man by The Beatles" to "Piano Man by Billy Joel""Piano Man by Billy Joel" to "Rocket Man by Elton John""Rocket Man by Elton John" to "Little Man by Alan Jackson"

After that, "Man" is dead, and the next player will have to link to the remaining words in the last song. In this case, "Alan", "Jackson", or "Little." the word "Man" can be used later.

Compound Words

Compound words can be broken up, and one of the component words used in the link. The component word used in the link must have the same meaning or be a homonym of a word in the original compound word.

"Taxman by The Beatles" to "Piano Man by Billy Joel"

Words that are not real words in English can be broken up if their root word is a real word. Example:

"Seek and Destroy by Metallica" to "Metal Health by Quiet Riot"

This could also work the other way around. However, it only works if the word you get out of it really IS a root word; Nowhere does not break down into "Now" and "here", for example, because those words do not have any relation to the meaning of the root words or homophones thereof.

To be clear, the root word in the word you're splitting must be related to the meaning of the word being split.

Invalid Link Words

Links based on words such as "An", "the", "a", "at", "in", "on" and "and" are not permissible.

Example:

"The Beatles - Nowhere Man" to "The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black" is illegal, because it uses "The" as the link word.

Spelling, Tense, Plurality

A link word should be a tense or easy derivative of the word linked, or an english homophone thereof. Plurality doesn't matter unless it completely changes the spelling of the word.

For instance, "I Walk The Line" By Johnny Cash and "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" by Nancy Sinatra is legal, as the link word is two tenses of the verb "Walk".

"I Can Hear Music" by The Beach Boys and "I Was Here" by Lady Antabellum is also legal, as the two words are homophones.

However, "Let it Be" by the Beatles and "All That I Am" by Parachute would be an illegal link, even though they are both conjugations of the verb "To Be" because they sound absolutely nothing alike.

Similarly, "I Heard It Sound" by Bodies of Water to "Here We Are" by Alabama is illegal, as they are neither tenses of the same word, nor homophones, even though Here is a homophone of a tense of Heard. Capiche?

This is subjective and my final judgement or the judgement of one of the moderators counts, but we will be as fair and objective as we can be.

Language

ENGLISH is the official language of the ODoS geeklists. All song titles must be in English, and all links based off of the English titles, no matter what the original song title was in a different language. Words that are heavily borrowed by English, but are not english words, like Coup D'etat, Fiesta, Rendez-vous, Non-Sequitur, and others that are commonly found in English, are allowable. The final judgement call will be a Moderator's, but I and the other moderators will be as fair as possible.

Numeric Links

Linking between songs using numbers is allowed. It doesn't matter if you link between a numeral and a word (for instance, "3" to "three") or part of a number to part of another number (2112 to 21, 12, or 11).

Game End and Winning

Participants may come and go, and there is no minimum or maximum number or mandatory frequency of play.

The last person to post something that isn't challenged for 24 hours (Excluding site outages) or who posts something with no legal follow-up will recieve half of the current pot (which starts at 20 from me, plus any tips the list recieves). We will then continue from that song as a new game, but with previously played songs still unavailable. This will continue until splitting again would leave no more than 3 in the pot. In the event this happens, the next winner recieves the remainder of the pot (which will, mathematically speaking, be 5.99 GeekGold or less).